Citizen Watches for Men & Women

Citizen is known for producing one of the most finely crafted and accurate watches ever made. Citizen has always pioneered ground-breaking technologies and helped to make watches an indispensable part of life. As an all-round manufacturer, Citizen watches has always been the leader in innovating new technique of producing great watches.
History:
In 1924, the Shokosha Watch Research Institute produced its first pocket watch. The then Mayor of Tokyo, Mr. Shimpei Goto, named the watch CITIZEN with the hope that, such luxury items would be widely available to ordinary citizens and to be sold throughout the world. In 1930, this was adopted as the name of the company as well. In 1956, Citizen introduced the first ever shock resistant watch named Parashock. Three years later, Parawater was known as the countrys first water resistant watch. Since 1993, Citizen watches has been serving as the official timekeeper and the official watch of the US open tournament. Citizen has also sponsored the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, which took place in Italy(2007).

Products:

Citizen watches products can be categorized into following 5 major product ranges (there are
others as well, but these are the main ones) based on the technology they are
built with and the users for whom it was targeted to.

The
Citizen Aqualand series is easily the most popular diver watch series in the
world of scuba divers. Its not just the looks and the durability, but they all
feature depth meters, multiple alarms, timers etc. And best of all the prices
are great. Citizen Aqualand watches have many popular model ranges: the JP1010,
JP2000, JP1060, JP3050, JV0020, JV0000, JV0055, MA9004.

The
Citizen Aqualand series incorporates the latest diving technology to give you
all the accurate details of your dives. The Cyber Aqualand and Hyper Aqualand
series are a bit more advanced than the other watches. The Hyper Aqualand watch
allows you to connect to a PC and transfer the dive data to the PC. The watch
comes in a big box along with the instruction book, the software installation
CD which works for all the Windows Operating systems. The Cyber Aqualand
watches have a new technology depth meter which gives accurate depth readings.
It can save up of 20 diving logs at a time. Also, many of the Aqualand watches
are Eco-Drive which means they charge in sunlight or even indoors and you do
not have to worry about changing batteries ever. There is a low charge
indicator so you can be sure that the battery is sufficiently charged before
going on your dive. All in all I think the Aqualand series is the best diver
watch series in the world. Its great value for money and you can just never go
wrong with an Aqualand.

This
is worlds leading sports collection watch series which combines the leading
edge technology and precision engineering with the unique functionality.
Irrespective of the conditions, the precision and reliability is guaranteed in
these watches. The collection contains watches designed for use on land, in the
sea as well as in the sky. Citizen Promaster watches are not just great
looking, they are tough, durable and packed with features. Many of them have
Eco-Drive, Perpetual Calendar, Moon-phase, 24 hour hand etc. Some of the
popular series are Nighthawk, Blue Angels, Skyhawk etc.

In
these watches, the solar cell beneath the dial converts any form of light into
electrical to power the watch. In these watches, sunlight and artificial light
are absorbed through the crystal and the dial. The lithium-ion rechargeable
batteries can store energy to power the watch from 80 days to 5 years.

Citizen
watches have a great range of mechanical watches with exquisite Automatic Movements.
These watches work by the movement of the wrist of the wearer, and therefore
you never need to
change its battery.

Citizen
Skyhawk watches has multifunction, they use radio controlled signals to
automatically update the time. These Citizen Skyhawk Eco drive watches use
direct sunlight to power the watch. These Citizen Skyhawak timepieces have
ability to adjust or set the correct time via its Radio waves.

The
perpetual calendar watches show full automatic calendar in brief. Most of the
citizen watches used this function in their timepieces. Once adjusted the date,
these watches can continuously run long time including leap year. Perpetual
calendar watches are programmed to be accurate until several years.

Citizen
Chronograph watches come with many variations, chronograph watches can easily
recognize with their functions such as tachymeter, stopwatch, alarm dual time
etc. These Citizen Chronograph watches can determine speed or distance by
tachymeter scales.

Citizen
diamond watches are famous and popularly sold all around the world. These
Citizen Diamond watches has captured the attention of Mens and Womens. These
Citizen Diamond timepieces are sure to stand out and take the watch lovers by
storm.

These
Citizen Titanium Watches are strong and lighter than other ordinary watches.
Most of the Citizen Watches use this desirable titanium material for making
watches. Although they are relatively expensive in price but they very well
reflect human personality.

Technology:

Thanks
to the constant strive for innovation; Citizen watches has always come up with
the best of the technology in the watch making.

Eco-Drive

This
is the latest milestone in the art of watch making. This is a light powered
solution that eliminates the need of changing the batteries. Due to this,
Citizen watches has become the first watch company to receive the Japan
Environment Associations Eco Mark for environmental friendly products. This
technology uses a battery recharged by a solar panel hidden under the watch
face. This panel gets energy either from sun light or from indoor light as
well.

Atomic
Timekeeping

This technology achieves the timekeeping with the radio controlled accuracy.
These watches synchronize with the Atomic clocks in Japan, North America and
Europe and will automatically select the correct frequency for doing so based
upon the home time zone. These watches can track 2 time zones simultaneously.
Additionally, day, date and daylight saving time setting are automatically set
when the watch is synchronized.

Quartz Watches

This
collection combines the key attributes such as reliability, affordability and
quality across a wide range of ladies and gents watches. A small quartz crystal
is used in such watches to keep the time accuracy. Precise electric pulses and
resulting frequencies help to maintain the accuracy in timekeeping.